{"title":"A Contribution to the History of Epidemics, Climate and Natural Disasters","authors":"Miguel Ángel Gómez Mendoza","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v32i3.18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 2020, Lucian Boia published a book about natural disasters from a longue durée perspective, focused on epidemics, earthquakes, and climate changes. The review un-derlines the main aspects discussed in the book, pointing out the theoretical ap-proaches used by Lucian Boia in dealing with these topics not only in the reviewed book, but also in his other books related to these topics such as The Weather in the Imagination or Probleme de geografie istorica (Problematics of Historical Geography).","PeriodicalId":40507,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Balkanistic Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v32i3.18","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In 2020, Lucian Boia published a book about natural disasters from a longue durée perspective, focused on epidemics, earthquakes, and climate changes. The review un-derlines the main aspects discussed in the book, pointing out the theoretical ap-proaches used by Lucian Boia in dealing with these topics not only in the reviewed book, but also in his other books related to these topics such as The Weather in the Imagination or Probleme de geografie istorica (Problematics of Historical Geography).
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"Balkanistic Forum" is published since 1992 as a yearly edition of the “Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialization” to the South-Western University “Neofyt Rilski” Blagoevgrad. Since 1995 it is published in thematic issues -3 issues per year. The main task of the Journal is to provide free forum for discussing important historical and present problems of the Balkans in European and wider context. It is designed as an interdisciplinary journal uniting the efforts of specialists in History, Sociology, Literature, Anthropology, Linguistics, Culture Studies.